ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,146, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Battery impedance spectra measurement" was invented by Yevgen Pavlovich Barsukov (Richardson, Texas), David Patrick Magee (Allen, Texas) and Charles Kasimer Sestok IV (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "From a current measurement circuit, digital samples are received of a current signal that flows through a battery cell within a measurement period. From a voltage measurement circuit, digital samples are received of a voltage signal across the battery cell within the measurement period. First voltage spectral components are generated based on performing a first...